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Creators of ad mailings and spam are very interested in knowing whether you read their messages. This post explains how to protect against e-mail tracking.

Here’s how scammers try to phish for verification codes — and what may happen if you send them one.

Jeff and Dave discuss deleting Facebook accounts, Earth not being flat, new cryptocurrency, and more.

Where are the most dangerous places to live? How about the biggest fans of e-mail — and of porn? All that and more in our annual cybersurvey.

A phishing scam to try and get you to hand over your battle.net account details is offering a free pet. There’s no free pet.

We have more bad news from the Yahoo hack: Even without a yahoo.com account, you may be at risk.

Yahoo is expected to announce a “massive” data breach soon. Although the news is not yet confirmed, you should be proactive and check the security of your Yahoo account.

Have you ever received a letter from a Nigerian prince? A Nigerian astronaut? How about Daenerys Targaryen? If so, you know that we are talking about funny Nigerian spam — and this post covers it all!

Aleks Gostev of Kaspersky Lab’s GReAT discusses the WhatApp move towards encryption and how email needs to be next in adopting end-to-end encryption

These incidents sound like a detective story, but are taken from real life. It’s almost impossible to avoid targeted hacking and here we explain why is that so.

Your primary email account is often the master key that can provide backup access to all other accounts, which is why you must be particularly careful with it.

Spam levels have dropped globally and it’s not a seasonal fluctuation. There is indeed less spam now in e-mail traffic. Can spam ever be beaten altogether?

According to research by Kaspersky Lab, 22 percent of phishing scams on the web target Facebook.

This is a story of when security works, but it may also be the story of a new way to exploit the internet for dirty money: As you can easily

As the recent NSA leaks have revealed, our digital lives make it very difficult to maintain anonymity and protect our privacy — especially since we tend to make it especially

Have you ever wondered what a hacked computer, email address, or other online account is even worth? Sure, it seems pretty obvious that there’d be some serious value in a

Is Google’s wildly popular Gmail email service safe for work? The short answer is yes, for most of us at least, but there are circumstances in which Gmail is not

Social networks have become major targets for attackers, who value the implied trust that users have in their friends’ accounts. Compromising a large number of accounts on one of the

Hacking someone’s personal email account is the best way to control their online presence, and new research shows that it is frighteningly easy to do just that. A recent study